Clashes that erupted in Ethiopia earlier this month between two of the country’s largest ethnic groups have killed hundreds of people and displaced thousands more, the government said.
The killing of two local administrators coupled with long-running land disputes led to an outbreak of fighting between the Oromo and Somali peoples in the south and east, government spokesman Negeri Lencho said.
“We...

North Korea’s foreign minister said on Monday President Donald Trump had declared war on North Korea and that Pyongyang reserved the right to take countermeasures, including shooting down U.S. bombers even if they are not in its air space.
Ri Yong Ho said a Twitter message by Trump on Saturday, in which the president warned that the minister and North Korean...

UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s “utter silence” in the face of human rights abuses by countries like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain illustrates her “hypocrisy,” says a Labour Member of Parliament.
Speaking at Labour Party’s national conference in Brighton, Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry criticized the ruling Conservative government for turning a blind eye to Saudi Arabia’s deadly war against Yemen, and selling...

A powerful earthquake has hit Mexico, killing five people, following two strong quakes that have already killed some 400 people and wrought massive destruction across the Latin American country.
The United States Geological Survey said a magnitude 6.2 quake struck on Saturday at a relatively shallow depth, with an epicenter near Juchitan, a tropical region of Oaxaca State.
Oaxaca had already been...

Combat aircraft of the Army conducted surveillance and aerial maneuvers as they exercised providing cover for rapid reaction units on the ground, the Fars news agency reported.
The Army is holding its Heydar Karrar drills simultaneously with IRGC's Moharram exercises, in which special forces of Iran's ground, airborne and air forces are assessing their capabilities to coordinate operations.
The exercises feature aerial and electronic...

Republican Senator John McCain has a very slim chance of recovering from his recently discovered brain cancer according to the doctors which have been assisting him so far.
In a Sunday night interview on CBS’s 60 Minutes, the veteran American politician confessed that even following his surgery, the prognosis put forth by doctors attending to his case is still “very, very...

Bahrain has made overtures to Israel in a bid to normalize ties with the regime in defiance of growing public discontent in the Persian Gulf country.
An informed Bahraini diplomatic source has told the Middle East Eye news portal that Israeli and Bahraini officials had high-level contacts with the focus on exchanging visits between businessmen, influential social and religious figures.
The contacts...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York to discuss the so-called Middle East peace process in their first public talks, reports said on Tuesday.
Sisi emphasized the importance of “resuming negotiations between the Israeli and Palestinian sides to reach a comprehensive solution,” AFP news agency cited a statement by the Egyptian president’s office.
Meanwhile, Israeli...

Combat aircraft of the Army conducted surveillance and aerial maneuvers as they exercised providing cover for rapid reaction units on the ground, the Fars news agency reported.
The Army is holding its Heydar Karrar drills simultaneously with IRGC's Moharram exercises, in which special forces of Iran's ground, airborne and air forces are assessing their capabilities to coordinate operations.
The exercises feature aerial and electronic...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has given the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) three days to hand over control of its airports if it seeks to avoid an international air embargo, a retaliatory move the Iraqi government says will take against the independence-seeking region in the wake of a highly controversial referendum.
The Iraqi premier made the remarks in a weekly press...

Head of Hezbollah Executive Council Sayyed Hashem Saffieddine said that the Resistance has all the required weaponry to confront and defeat the powers of tyranny, including the Zionist entity and the takfiri groups.
“We rely on the divine power as well as our steadfastness and patience to confront all the hard challenges,” his eminence said.
Moreover, we do believe that the coming...

Zionist forces have killed a Palestinian who they say killed three Israelis - two security officers and a border police - in the north of the Israeli-occupied Jerusalem al-Quds.
The Palestinian had “arrived at the rear gate of Har Adar along with Palestinian laborers entering the settlement,” Israeli police said on Tuesday. He “pulled out a weapon and opened fire at the...

The Syrian Arab Army resumed their large-scale offensive in the eastern countryside of the Homs Governorate, Tuesday, liberating a large chunk of territory that was under the occupation of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS).
Amid ongoing operations by the Syrian Arab Army against besieged ISIS militants in rural Hama and Homs, another 7 villages within a wide land area have been...

The head of Yemen’s supreme political council Saleh Al-Sammad said that the Saudi regime has failed to eradicate the Yemenis’ revolutionary spirit, warning the mercenaries that just exploits them to achieve its targets.
Al-Sammad noted that the Yemeni army and popular committees are going to carry out rocketry strikes against additional Saudi territories as well as UAE cities in response to...

Addressing the opening ceremony of the Remembrance of the Helpers of Ashura Exhibition in Qom, Ayatollah Seyyed Hashem Hoseyni-Bushehri pointed out, "The movement of Ashura occurred due to demands for justice and the fight against oppression and these goals are clearly seen in the Sacred Defence," Taqrib News Agency (TNA) reported Rasa as saying.
"Along with securing its domestic security, Iran...

Iran says it is preparing to increase its exports of crude oil to global markets beyond the current volume of 2.2 million barrels per day (mb/d), saying this would be carried out as a new type of Iranian crude is presented to clients.
Saeed Khoshrou, the director for international affairs of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), was quoted by domestic...

Clashes that erupted in Ethiopia earlier this month between two of the country’s largest ethnic groups have killed hundreds of people and displaced thousands more, the government said.
The killing of two local administrators coupled with long-running land disputes led to an outbreak of fighting between the Oromo and Somali peoples in the south and east, government spokesman Negeri Lencho said.
“We...

Zionist forces have killed a Palestinian who they say killed three Israelis - two security officers and a border police - in the north of the Israeli-occupied Jerusalem al-Quds.
The Palestinian had “arrived at the rear gate of Har Adar along with Palestinian laborers entering the settlement,” Israeli police said on Tuesday. He “pulled out a weapon and opened fire at the...

“ O Messenger, announce that which has been revealed to you from your Lord, and if you do not, then you have not conveyed His message. And Allah will protect you from the people. Indeed, Allah does not guide the disbelieving people!”
When this verse which was revealed in the valley of Ghadir Khum near Juhfa region at the
return of the...